The ongoing biennial environmental survey, undertaken by staff at Lincoln University since 2000, has been used as a basis for identifying some future directions for rural New Zealand in the 21st Century. In the main, New ...

This paper develops a systematic assessment of the sustainability of ecosystem services provided by rivers impacted by water storage projects. Given the conflicting preferences amongst stakeholders and the incomplete, ...

In recent times, there has been increasing demand in the Canterbury region of New Zealand for the abstraction of water from rivers. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows and has adversely ...

There is an increasing demand for water resources in the Canterbury region. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows, which has resulted in adverse affects to river ecology. In an effort to ...

New Zealand marine fishing activities create many types of environmental externalities,
which by law must be internalised. Selection of best intemalisation instruments can be aided
by following a hierarchical decision ...

The seventh (having begun in 2000) survey of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken over February-March 2013. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model of ...

Management of New Zealand marine fisheries is widely regarded as innovative and effective. However a
nationwide survey in 2000 revealed that New Zealanders judge the state of New Zealand’s marine fisheries
to be adequate ...

EIANZ in 2007 released a blueprint for environmental practitioners entitled ‘Meeting the Challenges of the Future’. Three sets of actions were listed as forming the basis for the Blueprint, including – ‘Improve the ...

The prospect of renewed exploration for petroleum offshore New Zealand has generated
plenty of interest amongst the general public, business interests and government. New Zealand
has an offshore exploration history dating ...